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<br />..l <br /> <br />Fax <br /> <br />Jul 31 08:25 <br /> <br />"' <br /> <br />The cost to dam the Gunnison's off-river glacier-carved, <br />Union Park site is about the same as the much smaller Wolford <br />Mountain Reservoir Project. Most of the conduit cost to fill and <br />deliver fro~ Union Park will be offset by clean power revenues <br />from the reversible pump-qenerators and the reqion's guaranteed <br />drouqht flows. <br /> <br />Instead ot fuelinq old inter-basin water fights, Colorado <br />leaders on both slopes should recognize Western meqa-trends and <br />unite quickly behind the state's headwater storage options. No <br />other water conservation concept compares with the multiple <br />environmental values of storinq wasted snowmelt where it can be <br />used and reused throuqhout the entire reqion when needed during <br />droughts. <br /> <br />Colorado is permanently squandering its water future to down <br />river qrowth areas, because its leaders are ducking the <br />politically sensitive inter-basin water development issues, As a <br />key voice for the West Slope, you could help break this costly <br />qridlock tor the environmental enhancement of both slopes. <br /> <br />Thanks for considerinq these critical statewide water <br />straqey issues. <br /> <br />SiZJ~ <br /> <br />Dave Miller <br />